A Consideration of Ethics in Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart

by Joanna Johnson, M.A.

Objectives

Educational Objectives

Upon completing the Things Fall Apart module, students will:

• Identify key moral issues and concerns within the novel.
• Describe core values and the extent to which they apply to characters and their actions in the novel
• Better understand questions concerning the potential for or lack of universality of ethical precepts and approaches, that is, whether a specific set of moral standards should be understood as applying to everyone.